I just learned about this super fascinating & major geology incident that I’ve never heard of before, so now I’m going to tell you At one point in time (5MYA) the Mediterranean Sea didn’t exist..in fact, it nearly looked like the Sahara Desert with a few super salty tiny lakes. This event is called the Messianian Salinity Crisis. What is now the strait of Gibraltar got pinched closed from moving tectonic plates and blocked off the Mediterranean sea’s access to the Atlantic. Now the salty sea of

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